What's in your garden?

[StephanieL]

Apples!  Believe it or not, our espalier apple trees has been producing a nice crop of Fujis.  We also got a couple of Gordon apples.

You really have to love a climate where you can grow apples and citrus in the same backyard.

[small h]

This has not been a stellar year for either of my gardens. Downstate, my Sungold offered up 50 fruit, which sounds pretty good, but that's half of the usual yield. The Pink Berkeley Tie Dyes and Premios were even worse - just a few fruits each. I got three Anaheim peppers - which is actually a pretty good haul for me - and a fine amount of kale, chard, parsley, dill, thyme, sage and tarragon. The basil, mint, cilantro and oregano keeled over dead before doing anything useful.

Upstate, I'm very hopeful to get more cukes. Last time we were there, the vines were covered in flowers and infant fruits, and I've already made a very respectable batch of pickles. The green beans have been uncharacteristically anemic, and of the peas, the less said, the better. H shamed me by growing a fine crop of yellow pear tomatoes in this, his first year out as a vegetable grower, while none of my tomatoes did squat. (He's in charge of flowers. I don't give a damn about flowers. I can't eat flowers.) I was reasonably successful with carrots this year, likely due to my next-door neighbor getting a countertop composter (she has no need of compost, but I do). I continue to bang my head against the wall trying to grow okra and beets, both of which obviously hate me.

Looking forward to 2024 at this point.

[StephanieL]

It hasn't actually been a great year for us. The only things that we got in quantity were berries and lettuce.

Edited September 26, 2023 by StephanieL

[Sneakeater]

At the Greenmarket, it's been a fabulous year for tomatoes, really extraordinary.

But the squash and pepper crops were decimated.  And the berry supply was limited.

[small h]

I had a very good berry foraging year. I wonder what happened to the farmed ones.

[Sneakeater]

If I remember right, a berry farmer told me there was too much rain at just the wrong time.

[small h]

Hence my blighted tomatoes. Things were a little better further north, I guess.

[Behemoth_Munich]

This year was too dry, then too hot, then too wet, then too cold, then too dry again. I sort of gave up. The only thing that did spectacularly well this year was the tarragon. 

[StephanieL]

Still can't believe we can grow bananas here.

Edited November 9, 2023 by StephanieL